Review By Ryan+B on Windows Forums
Number Of Members: (8/10)
You have 25 members, which is fairly good to say that you have been open for just 4 days, although I have seen forums with more than 25 members that have been open for a short amount of time. To get more members, you should join as many different forums as possible (particularly ones with similar genres to yours) and advertise. Another way is by requesting a FP package; however, FP packages are currently closed due to the high amount of requests. When they reopen, you should get one. In general, though, the number of members that you have is good and nothing really to worry about.
Number Of Active Members: (10/10)
11 of your 25 members have been online in the past 24 hours, that is nearly 50%. Most forums would be absolutely delighted to have about 50% of their members on within the past 24 hours because it is a brilliant achievement. Well done and you get 10/10 on your activity level, so no improvements at all are necessary.
Number Of Posts (Spam or Otherwise): (3/10)
Your 25 members have made a total of 115 posts, which I feel is generally poor. On average, your members have made less than 5 posts each which is not very good. The majority of your posts are also in the Introduce Yourself forum, which is not at all promising to see. To improve, you should organise some kind of competition with a decent prize that your members can win for posting on your forum. Improvement is definitely necessary so you should start on this right away.
Appearance (First Impressions): (5/20)
I was disappointed with what I saw when I first viewed your forum. Your template is only the default Vbulletin template and that is quite off-putting. Members would prefer to see a template that fits in well with the theme of your forum - maybe something to do with computers? Try to find/or create a template that looks different and is quite attractive. I don’t really like your logo, either. It is very basic and really very appealing. When you pick a new template, I recommend that you get the excellent FP Graphics staff to make a logo that goes with it - that way, your marks for a appearance with rapidly shoot up!
Layout: (16/20)
I am not really an expert on Windows and Computing, so I do not know really what to look for in that respect. In the off-topic section, though, I see that your ‘Forum Announcements’ is towards the bottom of the forum. I think that you should move it right to the top as it the most important forum with all of the news and the announcements. Apart from that, everything looks fine.
Moderation: (10/10).
Your forum is very new and you are on your own running the forum without any staff (or so I can see). At this point, you don’t really need any staff so I will give you full marks, although, as you grow, you will need to hire some moderators to help you with the running of the forum.
Activity: (10/10)
As stated earlier, the activity on your forum for a forum that is just 4 days old is excellent. No improvements are necessary and keep it up!
Spelling and Grammar: (10/10).
From what I have seen, all of your posts are made in full English with correct grammar.
Overall Mark (Out Of 100): (66/100)
I am afraid that I have taken off 5 marks due to the large amount of downtime that I have seen on your forum today.
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